August 30, 2006 Hundreds of people gathered to lynch the Kurdish workers in Bozkir town of central Turkey in Konya region. The attackers chanting, “God Is Great! We don’t want people from the east in our town!” assaulted the Kurdish workers where 2 workers were injured seriously. The police did not intervene and watched as […]
August 30, 2006
Hundreds of people gathered to lynch the Kurdish workers in Bozkir town of central Turkey in Konya region. The attackers chanting, “God Is Great! We don’t want people from the east in our town!” assaulted the Kurdish workers where 2 workers were injured seriously. The police did not intervene and watched as the events escalated. The Kurds, having no protection for their lives are preparing to leave the Turkish town.
The attack was instigated against the 25 Kurdish building workers by people organized by the MHP- Nationalist Movement Party (a Nazi organization involved in many murders of progressives. The founder and organizer of paramilitary Grey Wolves, who were notorious in their coordinated attack against peaceful civilians with the police. In the 1960’s the Grey Wolves protected the US 6th fleet soldiers who came to Istanbul to use the Turkish brothels against the people who demonstrated against the US. Grey Wolves together with the Nationalist Movement Party is involved in many organized crimes and state terror actions as well as money laundering, drug trafficking and other criminal activities. Couple of MHP Parliamenterian representatives were cought at the Turkish border while trying to smuggle narcotics, presumably to trade for arms used to assasinate leftists. Mehmet Ali Agca, the Grey Wolf and MHP sympathizer and organizer, working hand in hand with intelligence services tried assasinating the Pope in 1981. Translator’s note.)
500 thugs raid a coffee shop
The events started by spreading rumors that the Kurdish workers had beaten other building workers. A crowd of 500 people gathered to take “revenge.” The mob then headed to the coffee shop frequented by the Kurds. Two Kurdish workers were seriously injured by the raiding thugs.
Police did not intervene
While the injured Kurds were taken to the hospital, the crowd continued to march through the town’s streets well into the night screaming, “God Is Great! We don’t want Easterners in Our Town!” The local governor had to call the military troops for help when the police refused to intervene in the lynching.
Recent Lynching events in Turkey
– In July, in the town of Ödemiş of İzmir, the third largest city in Turkey, a lynching attempt occurred against a whole family of seasonal workers, including 6 women.
– On June 3rd, again in İzmir, in a town called Torbali, when two young men fought in a wedding party, the fight escalated into a Turkish/Kurdish ethnical scuffle. Hundreds of people tried to lynch the Kurds, threatening their lives.
– In Kırklareli, the town of Vize also witnessed a lynching attempt, by the Grey Wolves. The camp organized by “Basic Rights Coalition” was raided by the military gendarmerie troops. When the attorneys for the arrested entered Vize, the Grey Wolves attacked and tried to lynch the lawyers.
– In July, when the Families of The Arrested and Imprisoned (TAYAD) wanted to hold a press release, again the MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) and the Grey Wolves attacked the peaceful families reading a press release.
– On May 5th, again in the western region of İzmir, in the small town of Kemalpaşa this time, an argument started between market vendors and the local police turned into a lynching attempt when the Nationalist Movement Party started attacking the market sellers for their ethnic origin. Many people were arrested in the long fight.
– On April 8th, a right wing assault was organized against a press release held by Erzincan Youth Organization, representing the people of Erzincan, an eastern city in Turkey. While the police only watched, the assailants tried to lynch the youth reading the press release. In the same incident, an official of the DTP, a Kurdish party, was also beaten up seriously. Many young people had to be hospitalized after the Grey Wolves’ attack.
– On March 30th, a group of young people hanging posters to commemorate the anniversary of the Kızıldere massacre by the Turkish forces were attacked by the paramilitary Grey Wolves.
– On January 30, when a group of 300 members of the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) marched in the northern City of Ordu, the Grey Wolves attacked again trying to lynch the marchers. The bus carrying the marchers was also attacked and all its windows were broken by these “nationalists.”
Source ANF News Agency
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